Self Care Planner by epic self – Undated Wellness Planner, 48 Weeks – Self-Love, and Habit Tracker for Women – Prioritize Your Well-being in 2024 – Daily & Weekly Reflection Pages

Great planner.
I work as a therapist, and this self care planner is a great way for someone to really learn how to focus and prioritize self care for themselves. I like that it has the self care assessment (which provides education on what “self care” can actually look like) and the guided portions of the journal make it easy for even a novice or young person to learn to practice self care.

Perfect
As described.

functional self-care planner
This sturdy self-care journal features a hard linen cover, page marker ribbon, and colored pages throughout.Getting into the journal, it starts off with an intro of how to use the journal, a TOC table of contents, and then gets into part one of three. Part one is called “where are you now?”, part two is “where do you want to be?”, and part three has two sub-sections and is titled “a year of self-care” – the sub-sections are “monthly reviews”, and “weekly pages”.Part one: “Where are you now?”This section kicks off with a self-care assessment, comprised of physical, emotional, social, professional, and spiritual self-care statements that you rate on a scale of 3 to X – 3 being always and X being does not apply. Next is lined reflections in each of these self-care areas and a page called “knowing myself”, which is a bunch of boxed reflection questions about yourself.Part two: “Where do you want to be?”This section starts with some self-care questions, a page called “my dream life” of future reflection type questions, a letter to your future self, explanations on the 7 types of self-care, 4 pillars of self-care – daily plans, self-care intentions, self-care rituals, a page called “positive thinking” about ridding yourself of negative thoughts, self-care bingo, 30-day self care challenge, self-care favorites, a gratitude jar page, and a blank lined page closing this section out.Part three: “A year of self-care”Part three is the bulkiest and biggest part of this journal, and it starts with the first sub-section, which is monthly review. The monthly review, per month, is a two-page spread that has a rating, highlights, challenges, gratitude, intentions for next month, focus areas for next month, and a wheel of life on page two: a wheel you can shade on a scale of 1-10 with how well you feel you did in the included areas: personal growth, business and career, physical and mental health, finances, physical environment, family, love and romance, spirituality, social and friends, and fun and recreation. The next sub-section is the weekly planner, which has every week comprised of a 4 page spread – 2 pages of a Monday to Sunday to-do list tracker, goals tracker, gratitude, mood, water intake, exercise and sleep – closing it out with a habit tracker in the bottom right. The other 2 pages of the 2 page spread are the weekly review and weekly reflection.This is a solid self care planner with some unique intro prompts that are really fun to fill in as pre-reflection before you work your way through the bulk of the journal.

I Stinkin’ Love This Thing
I genuinely do not know where to start. The hardcover is a great feature, and I find it made well. There are three built in bookmarks (those ribbons attached to the binding you see in some journals, songbooks, bibles, etc). I’ve never seen three before, but I love that. The sections in this book aren’t overly simple nor are they so specific you’d have to fit in xyz niche to be able to actually get good use out of it. It’s in my hands right now so I can give the most accurate review I can. The first section includes self-assessments that are detailed, but not overwhelming. I find that many of these types of guided journals are either 0 or 100- it is so basic that you don’t gain anything from it or it is so complicated that it’s difficult to even use it. The happy medium exists in this journal to me. You can easily use it to your own needs. For example, they may ask in a questionnaire how you enjoy your work, but you may not have a job. You can just either skip or answer those questions while having school in mind if you’re a student. And those questions are limited, so you don’t feel like you just wasted 5 pages since you can’t relate to it. There tons of spaces for reflections, notes, tracking, and even using other mediums if you’d like (like graphs you can fill out in color with colored pencils for example if you so please). I can’t speak to using markers or wet media like paint because I haven’t and this wasn’t made for that, so you may cause bleeding or other issues. I’d suggest, if you wanna add color, use colored pencils, crayons, maybe highlighters, gel pens, etc. I just say this because even though it’s a premade guided journal, there are plenty of opportunities to make it your own. Not all of us know how to bullet-journal or otherwise make our own of this type of thing, but we still may yearn to get creative. I love this self-care journal. As a young, neurodivergent adult in therapy, I love this journal. Give it a try. I hope you love it, too.Alternative rating I’d give if I possible (e.g. 4.5 stars): 12Am I happy/satisfied with this item? ✅Does it serve its purpose? ✅Would I recommend this item? ✅Key → ✅: yes • ❌: no • ❔: not sure / partially